Make no mistake, seclusion won't solve the world's problems

President Donald Trump

Complex and multi-dimensional challenges such as terrorism, migration, climate change, rising inequalities and joblessness are certainly some of the pressing issues that affect our globalised world today, and whose grave impacts have variously forced leaders and other decision-makers around the world to come together to think of how best to solve them.

Much as disagreements about the how’s of sorting out these problems have time and again surfaced at the global stage, however, the why’s have normally glued countries together as one multifaceted global community.